Questions & Answers
How detailed should image alt text be?
We’re writing image descriptions for product pages, and there are a lot of image details we could potentially include in the alternative text. How much detail is really required?
- alt text
- best practices
- images
How should keyboard navigation work in a group of radio buttons?
Let's say we have a form with a few multiple choice questions, each with a "Yes" and “No" radio button option. Should tabbing be used to move from question to question, but not for the options within each question (use left and right or up...
- best practices
- keyboard navigation
- radio button
How do I request accessibility fixes for a 3rd party tool?
Some of the WCAG accessibility issues on my website are from 3rd party tools that are out of my control. What should I do?
- best practices
- third party
- wcag
Are “ghost tab stops” considered accessibility violations under WCAG?
There's an element on my site that makes the keyboard tab to it even though there isn't a visible item to focus on. Will this "ghost tab stop" fail under the WCAG?
- best practices
- cognitive
- keyboard
- keyboard navigation
- usability
- wcag
Is it compliant to have the same link present twice, as both an image and as text?
Is it considered accessible to have an image that acts as a link, followed by text that links to the same location?
- accessibility tree
- best practices
- links
- wcag
Do I need to add a ‘role’ attribute to html 5 tags like nav aside, main, etc.?
I am using the new html 5 tags on my site to give it more semantics. In addition to this should they all be given the corresponding role?
- best practices
- html
How do I know if my websites structure is laid out correctly?
My page looks good visually, but I am not sure if its structure is laid out properly or if I used the right elements. How am I supposed to know if I've done things the "right" way?
- best practices
- building content
- html
- page structure
How do you fix a “suspicious link text” warning in the Wave Scanner?
I ran my page through the wave scanner in chrome and got 'suspicious link text' as a warning. My question is this... how specific do I need to make the text? If I go over the top and make it super specific it goes away...
- best practices
- building content
- html
- wave scanner
Does my site need to be usable if the CSS and javascript doesn’t load?
I've always wondered this but never really known for sure. Let's say none of my CSS or javascript loads. Does the site still need to be usable? I know a lot of really big sites are useless without CSS and javascript so I'm betting the...
- best practices
- CSS
- html
- javascript
- page structure